Debian decides on systemd—for now

The difference, I think, is that people see the things systemd is doing without understanding the rationales, reading the blog posts, or trying it out and instead tend to just assume, go off of other people's anecdotes born of other's assumptions, and more. *That* is what leads people to discuss systemd so vigorously. It sounds like "try it, you'll like it", but I'd vastly prefer even "I didn't like the way A, B, or C worked because of X, Y, and Z. I'd be happier if..." to "this blogger posted this a year ago which was out-of-date and misinformed when it was new. Don't you see why you're going to hell?". There's a lot of ignorance about the reasons behind things and it seems to be a willful ignorance in a number of the more…vitriolic commenters.